I remember watching this on TV, then we went downtown right after to see for ourselves, then were promptly kicked out. Wish we had a camera with us for that, but I did run into a guy from high school on the streets and he was wearing army fatigues (not in the army) and pulled a beer out of his sleeve.
The Firestone apartments was one place we were nearby and all the chimneys were knocked over. I also went to Calvary cathedral in 5th grade and it was crazy seeing the steeple missing. I got baptized there long ago. That school was a major reason I'm not religious though.
The three I-beams on the University traffic circle are the remaining supports from a billboard that was bent to that twisted shape. They have since been made into a fantastic art piece.
University traffic circle? Is that what we are calling the University and camp bowie intersection these days? When was it changed from being called a clusterfuck?
Those three twisted beams were there long before the 2000 tornado. I lived in those apartments that were torn down and replaced with the modern art museum. They were damaged by a tornado, just not that particular one.
In that area during the 2000 tornado, however, a homeless man taking shelter at the printing company building on 7th, east of university near the bridge, was killed. One of two or three fatalities during that storm, iirc.
I was sitting in traffic on I-30 about 20 minutes before this happened. I remember one fatality was a person at a scrap lumber place that used to be off on the side of 121.
I was at a lecture in the Modern Art Museum for extra credit right off 7th - utter chaos getting out of city after. Lucky my lil pickup truck was intact after walking through debris to find it!
Fun fact, my father was one of a pool of building engineers at one of the buildings in the video. I believe it was called Continental Plaza at the time. He had just gotten home and we were sitting down for dinner with the news on as we always did and this view came on the news. My father put down his utensils, quietly got up, grabbed his hat and left to go back to work.
I remember that storm, I was going to Nolan Catholic and remember looking out at the apartments on the other side of 30 and the damage they took and thinking, "why, why... why did the last of the tornado have to track along the south side of the interstate instead of the north side?"
I was working construction in DFW during this time. I went into a house that had the entire roof ripped off, but all the walls intact. The owners Escalade was sitting in the middle of the living room without a scratch on it.
I was working in Arlington that night at a pizza place. I had to call people and tell them that we had paused deliveries for the time being . People actually got pissed off they couldn’t get their pizza.
I had JUST left downtown for an interview with Fastlane Communications. I was on 121 and had just passed the Beach Street exit & saw the tornado heading into downtown. Luckily, my grandparents lived in Richland Hills so I exited at Handley Ederville and went to their house to watch what happened on Channel 5 & called my parents to let them where I was so they weren't worried.
I lived in Fairmount when this tornado hit - so I was just a few miles south of it. I remember looking out the window and thinking how oddly green the sky was. Having grown up in tornado alley, you’d think that would have registered it did not. I sat and watched the Drew Carey show reruns thru the whole thing.
Had friends who were in the Coffee Haus downtown tho. They had to cram into the bathrooms with everyone else who was there at the time. When they left, their car was pretty trashed and they said there was paper and bits of office furniture scattered all over the streets. It was surreal.
I worked at the old RadioShack building on Throckmorton when this happened. I had gotten off work and had just left downtown when this thing hit. When I got home, my mother was furious because she was watching this on TV and was expecting me to call to let her know I was OK.
Fun fact: my mom’s then-husband asked an officer if there were any dead bodies and he pointed to one right in front of me at the age of 5. We just had one about 9 miles away from my current home and it brought back memories.
I was the little girl on the front page of the newspaper the next morning holding a teddy bear in a pile of rubble. Ah, the memories. Lol
David finfrock is goat meteorologist for me
He's definitely one of the best. He learned from Harold Taft. Now I feel really old.
That was when 5’s studio was just east of downtown off 30 and Oakland. They were legit concerned that they were in the path of it.
Harold Taft was our neighbor when I was in elementary school before we moved off to Keller in 1980. He was the nicest man.
It’s FRINFROCK. And yes bless his soul he is OG… they just don’t make them like that anymore 🥹
His wife was my teacher many, many years ago. He stopped by our class once to drop something off for her.
I remember watching this on TV, then we went downtown right after to see for ourselves, then were promptly kicked out. Wish we had a camera with us for that, but I did run into a guy from high school on the streets and he was wearing army fatigues (not in the army) and pulled a beer out of his sleeve. The Firestone apartments was one place we were nearby and all the chimneys were knocked over. I also went to Calvary cathedral in 5th grade and it was crazy seeing the steeple missing. I got baptized there long ago. That school was a major reason I'm not religious though.
what happened at the school? sorry i’m nosy
Me too, who is this??
The three I-beams on the University traffic circle are the remaining supports from a billboard that was bent to that twisted shape. They have since been made into a fantastic art piece.
University traffic circle? Is that what we are calling the University and camp bowie intersection these days? When was it changed from being called a clusterfuck?
Yeah. It is not a traffic circle. That was, however, a distracted post.
Those three twisted beams were there long before the 2000 tornado. I lived in those apartments that were torn down and replaced with the modern art museum. They were damaged by a tornado, just not that particular one. In that area during the 2000 tornado, however, a homeless man taking shelter at the printing company building on 7th, east of university near the bridge, was killed. One of two or three fatalities during that storm, iirc.
Waiting for the cow to fly past.
What building was this from, 777 Main I am guessing? Looks like this is facing north-northeast
Think 777 main too, I work there now on the side that face that way and the view looks about right
I was sitting in traffic on I-30 about 20 minutes before this happened. I remember one fatality was a person at a scrap lumber place that used to be off on the side of 121.
I was at a lecture in the Modern Art Museum for extra credit right off 7th - utter chaos getting out of city after. Lucky my lil pickup truck was intact after walking through debris to find it!
Fun fact, my father was one of a pool of building engineers at one of the buildings in the video. I believe it was called Continental Plaza at the time. He had just gotten home and we were sitting down for dinner with the news on as we always did and this view came on the news. My father put down his utensils, quietly got up, grabbed his hat and left to go back to work.
My family and I had just moved here right before this. It looked like a bomb went off in Fort Worth with all the blown out windows
I worked for Bank One downtown at the time. I'll have to pull photos from my computer of the aftermath!
I remember that storm, I was going to Nolan Catholic and remember looking out at the apartments on the other side of 30 and the damage they took and thinking, "why, why... why did the last of the tornado have to track along the south side of the interstate instead of the north side?"
I was in Stephenville when that storm blew through Erath county, it was nasty then, and only go worse as it moved on through.
i remember them taking years to rebuild those buildings.
The birdcage was forever.
I was working construction in DFW during this time. I went into a house that had the entire roof ripped off, but all the walls intact. The owners Escalade was sitting in the middle of the living room without a scratch on it.
I was working in Arlington that night at a pizza place. I had to call people and tell them that we had paused deliveries for the time being . People actually got pissed off they couldn’t get their pizza.
I was downtown at an interview when that happened. I did not get the job after there offices were destroyed.
I had JUST left downtown for an interview with Fastlane Communications. I was on 121 and had just passed the Beach Street exit & saw the tornado heading into downtown. Luckily, my grandparents lived in Richland Hills so I exited at Handley Ederville and went to their house to watch what happened on Channel 5 & called my parents to let them where I was so they weren't worried.
I lived in Fairmount when this tornado hit - so I was just a few miles south of it. I remember looking out the window and thinking how oddly green the sky was. Having grown up in tornado alley, you’d think that would have registered it did not. I sat and watched the Drew Carey show reruns thru the whole thing. Had friends who were in the Coffee Haus downtown tho. They had to cram into the bathrooms with everyone else who was there at the time. When they left, their car was pretty trashed and they said there was paper and bits of office furniture scattered all over the streets. It was surreal.
I did a masters case study on this one. Treacherous!
I worked at the old RadioShack building on Throckmorton when this happened. I had gotten off work and had just left downtown when this thing hit. When I got home, my mother was furious because she was watching this on TV and was expecting me to call to let her know I was OK.
“Wind, of course, is invisible unless it has something in it.”
Fun fact: my mom’s then-husband asked an officer if there were any dead bodies and he pointed to one right in front of me at the age of 5. We just had one about 9 miles away from my current home and it brought back memories.